Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 03:12:00 +0000 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jason Hunt <jhunt@lynden.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intermittent EFI boot issue? Message-ID: <20160530031200.GM80759@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAL43sjhJaif0Tt4pdML3f7T9Egx7fp8hzVsEziRf2OBoN-Yx%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAL43sjhJaif0Tt4pdML3f7T9Egx7fp8hzVsEziRf2OBoN-Yx%2Bg@mail.gmail.com>
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--pFpMklMRdxwSC3Yi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 11:05:01PM -0400, Jason Hunt wrote: > Intermittently after building world/kernel and installing kernel, upon > reboot I sometimes get stuck at: >=20 > >> FreeBSD EFI boot block > Loader path: /boot/loader.efi >=20 > Initializing modules: ZFS UFS > Probing 35 block devices ... done > ZFS found the following pools: zroot > UFS found no partitions > Consoles: EFI console >=20 > And that's it. >=20 > Often times it's fixed by rebooting, but sometimes it takes numerous > attempts. Patience and cold boot vs warm boot doesn't make a difference > and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any pattern as to how it fixes > itself. Eventually the full boot screen appears and I can get in to sing= le > user mode to continue installing world. >=20 > I've only been following current for a couple of months, so I can't say if > this is a new problem, but it's happened most (but not every) times I've > rebuilt the system. Normal day-to-day rebooting doesn't give me any > issues; only when rebuilding. >=20 > Do I potentially have a buggy EFI firmware (motherboard is an ASUS P8B75-M > with latest firmware), or could it be a FreeBSD issue? I'm not even sure > how to try diagnosing this or what information would be helpful? >=20 > Any suggestions are appreciated. >=20 I've heard of an issue I've hit only a few times, without being able to=20 reproduce it reliably. When the machine passes POST, could you hold down the spacebar (or other non-character key)? Ideally, it will drop you to the loader prompt and/or ask you what you want to do. Typing 'boot' and hitting '[enter]', if the working theory is correct, should work. If not, we have more than one issue here. Thanks. Glen --pFpMklMRdxwSC3Yi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXS696AAoJEAMUWKVHj+KToYYP+wevIGamQo/87es9HsyRd8s3 qqjuGbYzR/ZINe760yTXbZM5fcSsht0ts3DCPObSpkL48PC0XXa2FCHgWhqCBB0N 62Hfdr21puVYCkXOf7ntsS+DR1vDOMpe3gsrB9vnw9GrAtBsICVt8PmOezkrS8i8 +1RMZt3+NP/LjO04q7k4ptPMivdCwTJI7AVzJdYBmtOcPOF+VOGlWMNBSet7wx3M TPbEfNVVS5UzkzuHy1QCuBraubYJCnysZQrE/7FAAX/s8KprqTrN8bQhLPJZv1BH YqP5wwLCPXU8hFZsYSp7s7jNzBkz6jGkhuhdGXldN+g3HhU3tQy74dU4x/34dUk6 D3Cg2e7Fhl3JLhAJDyV/GZmtrRuo14kBYb5ZZjc90HcpipH31m9l69BU6B8Gm0bu dZcl5J286TEf8jXLHfPi9XVk68O8wbHIXk7+nH8jiUBHb2ROzdWgHhgVPNzyLsbh 98gXfweyRkM1xv0w9h2+VKpx8LcBt6vXVAWKYZG7tWP3lAbjETV7jCH/QpQa/DRD CPaLTVr66JPlyx05slxM5hzJLI3RXYREnJrggTwmpfxzGDASFLD87zHrqKXZcGJQ c3N9O9sC2tIPRsw/D9eFyzNpg7N3cIdfsYunAJzmQ+p/RHIT5Xpo3B8vbs4q2eFC o70/WryPRcwa+kmNwinV =4Xdy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pFpMklMRdxwSC3Yi--
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